Post by Tempest on Feb 9, 2013 15:05:42 GMT -5
Full Name: Jeremy Sommer
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Power(s): Jeremy can tap into the subconscious minds of sleeping folk. In other words, he can travel through and manipulate dreams. This was not, by any means, a way of teleportation, though the nature of his power is rapidly changing into something more corporeal. Most of the time, he knits together the dream-realms of those in his vicinity and can, thus, travel from mind to mind. This ability is not exceptionally useful in fighting sequences, nor is it always wise for him to delve so deeply into the psyches of those around him. In recent months, though, he has āwoken upā in several hard-to-explain places, wearing hard-to-explain clothing.
Unfortunately, Jeremy is incapable of dreaming, or even of sleeping in a normal sort of way, so he spends every night wandering the dreams of other people. Most of the time, he tries not to interfere. He has a couple of alternate shapes in dreams. These he has no real control over. If he winds up in the dreaming as a raven or as black dog, he is stuck that way until the night is over. If he is himself, the same applies.
Dream manipulation is something he has a hard time doing at this point. Maybe in the future, he will be able to create his own dreamscapes and themes. Right now, he usually has to use it for deus-ex-machina type things so that he doesnāt die in somebody elseās dream.
Appearance: Jeremy is an average sort of fellow, moderately tall at about 5ā11ā and moderately muscular. His ash-brown hair is mid-length (for a guy) and tends to be unkempt. His eyes are striking- a bright blue ringed with the dark shadows that denote sleeplessness. He tries to take care of himself as much as possible- lifting weights and playing sports like stereotypical high schoolers. Unfortunately, he canāt always keep up. If heās had a bad night in somebody elseās dream, itās obvious in his demeanor and activity level. He likes t-shirts and jeans. In the dreaming, his clothing is usually determined by the dreamer and the dream themes, if he is in human form during the dream.
His face is slowly hardening to the harder planes of adulthood, but he still has the vitality of youth in his posture and gait. Every once in a while, on his more anemic days, he has moments where he behaves much older than he actually is. His nose is straight, his features stereotypically classic American, aside from the dark circles under his eyes.
Current State: Due to a recent plot, Jeremy is a shadow of his former self. He has regained some of the muscle mass he lost, but he is still thinner than he once was. He also has a multitude of scars that cover his entire body, including a few worryingly large ones on his torso. Some of them came from lacerations, some came from burns or bites.
He often carries a blank look on his face and he tends to alternate between aimless meandering and sudden panic between seconds.
Personality: He tries to blend in with the crowd, often coming off as a beta-type. Heāll go along with the crowd about ninety-nine percent of the time. Heās a people-pleaser, with a well-developed sense of humor and the capacity to make friends easily. He is master of the bland look when it comes to people mentioning that he was in their dreams (as you may imagine, heās gotten that comment quite often).
Since heās conscious of his ability, heās spent more of his lifetime experiencing things than most people. He is very discreet about the things he sees in other peoplesā heads, which is good because heās seen some pretty screwed-up things in the course of his lifetime. Naturally, he eventually finds minds he prefers to visit for safety reasons, and for being unnoticed.
Heās gotten all sorts of reactions to his confession of dream-wandering, from skepticism to outrage. As a result, he often lies about his ability when queried. Itās never far from the truth, though, since he dreads being caught out in a wild mistruth. So his usual answer is, āI can send apparitions into other peoplesā dreams. Sometimes they look like me.ā
Jeremy likes to play rugby, and he likes history. Heās a decent student, capable of getting better grades than he does get. He can usually apply himself to get the A-B honor roll. Most of the time, people donāt think heās very deep, emotionally. He actively reflects emotions of those around him, or resorts to being happy-go-lucky. However, he does have to deal with what he knows of the subconscious of his peers and others he comes into contact with, so there is usually more going on than meets the eye.
He can defend himself, and others, if need be, but heās not an expert in fighting. Heād rather come to a peaceful agreement instead. He can get annoyed easily, but he fears that heād make an idiot of himself in front of other people if he got genuinely angry.
He envies the ability of other people to have their own dreams.
Current State: Jeremy is a bit broken as a result of the most recent plot. He was swept up into dark matters by accident and spent a long period of time (a few months) running for his life, trying not to die. He had to go between reality and dreaming so often that it's hard for him to tell the difference now. He cannot trust anybody, nor can he trust his own perception.
There is a chance that he can return to his happy-go-lucky state, but it may take some time. For the time being, he has all sorts of problems and will have a difficult time getting back to normal interactions with people and normal activities.
Picture(optional): One. Two. These are not exact- his features are more open, typically. Also: he's never asleep, truly asleep. He will tan, if he spends enough time outdoors (and he often does, in the spirit of sports and recreation).
Weaknesses: Power not applicable to fights, unless the opponent reveals a flaw in their dreams. He sometimes gets ignored or shunted into the background since he tries not to make waves. He doesnāt have romantic relations with others because he doesnāt want to take advantage of other people.
Recently, heās discovered that injuries he sustains in the dreaming remain when he enters the waking world.
Strengths: Very friendly. Loyal, discreet, and intelligent (but not so much that he could be considered a genius). Handles strange situations with utter calm, 99% of the time.
History/Family: Jeremy was born with his ability. Luckily for him, his parents both had psychic abilities (his mother was a mind-reader and his father could see into other spiritual planes). So, even as his infant mind would travel into the dreaming, his parents figured out what was going on and tried to minimize the danger as much as they could.
As he got older, he was able to travel farther and farther from his physical form (which took on a semi-transparent characteristic during his stasis). He was able to figure out how to avoid dying, how to avoid being noticed in the dreams of others, and how to deal with the strange. He learned about many adult topics well before his peers, but that did not seem to affect him as much because his parents became accustomed to talking through his wanderings with him every morning over breakfast. It was his mother who suggested that he keep his power mostly to himself.
They were both accepting of his ability and encouraged him to foster it and practice it, but neither knew how to deal with the most recent development. When their 15 year old son burst into the house, wild-eyed and covered in bits of bracken, wearing clothes that better suited a 1930s migrant worker, they had no idea what to think. He told them that heād done as heād always done, but had wound up in a strange dream when the dreamer woke up. The man (and his equally horrified wife) had freaked, Jeremy had panicked, and his run from that house was anything but leisurely.
In the face of a power they had no real expertise on, his parents sought out another option. Though Jeremy was not interested in changing schools so late in his academic career, they all reached the same decision the morning he woke up three counties over wearing a suit made of woven flowers.
Now heās enrolled at Foresta with the intent of becoming more in tune with his abilities.
In Character sample: N/A
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Power(s): Jeremy can tap into the subconscious minds of sleeping folk. In other words, he can travel through and manipulate dreams. This was not, by any means, a way of teleportation, though the nature of his power is rapidly changing into something more corporeal. Most of the time, he knits together the dream-realms of those in his vicinity and can, thus, travel from mind to mind. This ability is not exceptionally useful in fighting sequences, nor is it always wise for him to delve so deeply into the psyches of those around him. In recent months, though, he has āwoken upā in several hard-to-explain places, wearing hard-to-explain clothing.
Unfortunately, Jeremy is incapable of dreaming, or even of sleeping in a normal sort of way, so he spends every night wandering the dreams of other people. Most of the time, he tries not to interfere. He has a couple of alternate shapes in dreams. These he has no real control over. If he winds up in the dreaming as a raven or as black dog, he is stuck that way until the night is over. If he is himself, the same applies.
Dream manipulation is something he has a hard time doing at this point. Maybe in the future, he will be able to create his own dreamscapes and themes. Right now, he usually has to use it for deus-ex-machina type things so that he doesnāt die in somebody elseās dream.
Appearance: Jeremy is an average sort of fellow, moderately tall at about 5ā11ā and moderately muscular. His ash-brown hair is mid-length (for a guy) and tends to be unkempt. His eyes are striking- a bright blue ringed with the dark shadows that denote sleeplessness. He tries to take care of himself as much as possible- lifting weights and playing sports like stereotypical high schoolers. Unfortunately, he canāt always keep up. If heās had a bad night in somebody elseās dream, itās obvious in his demeanor and activity level. He likes t-shirts and jeans. In the dreaming, his clothing is usually determined by the dreamer and the dream themes, if he is in human form during the dream.
His face is slowly hardening to the harder planes of adulthood, but he still has the vitality of youth in his posture and gait. Every once in a while, on his more anemic days, he has moments where he behaves much older than he actually is. His nose is straight, his features stereotypically classic American, aside from the dark circles under his eyes.
Current State: Due to a recent plot, Jeremy is a shadow of his former self. He has regained some of the muscle mass he lost, but he is still thinner than he once was. He also has a multitude of scars that cover his entire body, including a few worryingly large ones on his torso. Some of them came from lacerations, some came from burns or bites.
He often carries a blank look on his face and he tends to alternate between aimless meandering and sudden panic between seconds.
Personality: He tries to blend in with the crowd, often coming off as a beta-type. Heāll go along with the crowd about ninety-nine percent of the time. Heās a people-pleaser, with a well-developed sense of humor and the capacity to make friends easily. He is master of the bland look when it comes to people mentioning that he was in their dreams (as you may imagine, heās gotten that comment quite often).
Since heās conscious of his ability, heās spent more of his lifetime experiencing things than most people. He is very discreet about the things he sees in other peoplesā heads, which is good because heās seen some pretty screwed-up things in the course of his lifetime. Naturally, he eventually finds minds he prefers to visit for safety reasons, and for being unnoticed.
Heās gotten all sorts of reactions to his confession of dream-wandering, from skepticism to outrage. As a result, he often lies about his ability when queried. Itās never far from the truth, though, since he dreads being caught out in a wild mistruth. So his usual answer is, āI can send apparitions into other peoplesā dreams. Sometimes they look like me.ā
Jeremy likes to play rugby, and he likes history. Heās a decent student, capable of getting better grades than he does get. He can usually apply himself to get the A-B honor roll. Most of the time, people donāt think heās very deep, emotionally. He actively reflects emotions of those around him, or resorts to being happy-go-lucky. However, he does have to deal with what he knows of the subconscious of his peers and others he comes into contact with, so there is usually more going on than meets the eye.
He can defend himself, and others, if need be, but heās not an expert in fighting. Heād rather come to a peaceful agreement instead. He can get annoyed easily, but he fears that heād make an idiot of himself in front of other people if he got genuinely angry.
He envies the ability of other people to have their own dreams.
Current State: Jeremy is a bit broken as a result of the most recent plot. He was swept up into dark matters by accident and spent a long period of time (a few months) running for his life, trying not to die. He had to go between reality and dreaming so often that it's hard for him to tell the difference now. He cannot trust anybody, nor can he trust his own perception.
There is a chance that he can return to his happy-go-lucky state, but it may take some time. For the time being, he has all sorts of problems and will have a difficult time getting back to normal interactions with people and normal activities.
Picture(optional): One. Two. These are not exact- his features are more open, typically. Also: he's never asleep, truly asleep. He will tan, if he spends enough time outdoors (and he often does, in the spirit of sports and recreation).
Weaknesses: Power not applicable to fights, unless the opponent reveals a flaw in their dreams. He sometimes gets ignored or shunted into the background since he tries not to make waves. He doesnāt have romantic relations with others because he doesnāt want to take advantage of other people.
Recently, heās discovered that injuries he sustains in the dreaming remain when he enters the waking world.
Strengths: Very friendly. Loyal, discreet, and intelligent (but not so much that he could be considered a genius). Handles strange situations with utter calm, 99% of the time.
History/Family: Jeremy was born with his ability. Luckily for him, his parents both had psychic abilities (his mother was a mind-reader and his father could see into other spiritual planes). So, even as his infant mind would travel into the dreaming, his parents figured out what was going on and tried to minimize the danger as much as they could.
As he got older, he was able to travel farther and farther from his physical form (which took on a semi-transparent characteristic during his stasis). He was able to figure out how to avoid dying, how to avoid being noticed in the dreams of others, and how to deal with the strange. He learned about many adult topics well before his peers, but that did not seem to affect him as much because his parents became accustomed to talking through his wanderings with him every morning over breakfast. It was his mother who suggested that he keep his power mostly to himself.
They were both accepting of his ability and encouraged him to foster it and practice it, but neither knew how to deal with the most recent development. When their 15 year old son burst into the house, wild-eyed and covered in bits of bracken, wearing clothes that better suited a 1930s migrant worker, they had no idea what to think. He told them that heād done as heād always done, but had wound up in a strange dream when the dreamer woke up. The man (and his equally horrified wife) had freaked, Jeremy had panicked, and his run from that house was anything but leisurely.
In the face of a power they had no real expertise on, his parents sought out another option. Though Jeremy was not interested in changing schools so late in his academic career, they all reached the same decision the morning he woke up three counties over wearing a suit made of woven flowers.
Now heās enrolled at Foresta with the intent of becoming more in tune with his abilities.
In Character sample: N/A
